Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes Mda) Quotes
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I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'
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I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
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In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
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I'm very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I'm absolutely serious about that... Jews are sick, they're mental cases.
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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.
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It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
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I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
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How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.
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When one door opens, so does another one.
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Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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If you know you need to take some kind of risk, then get your relationship with God strong and go for it. You will never know what you could have or experience in life unless you try. God made you an original. That means you are really special, and He has a really special plan for your life. You may have to risk something that currently feels secure in order to go after that plan, but with God's help, you may end up in an awesome situation if you'll just take the chance.
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The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.
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Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.
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I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
